diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index efb85077a..7bee71dbf 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
+## [0.40.2](https://github.com/rust-bio/rust-htslib/compare/rust-htslib-v0.40.1...rust-htslib-v0.40.2) (2022-10-13)
+
+
+### Performance Improvements
+
+* update htslib and corresponding bindings to 1.16 ([#366](https://github.com/rust-bio/rust-htslib/issues/366)) ([f597ce0](https://github.com/rust-bio/rust-htslib/commit/f597ce0451e3f3c393166a7291486bbc2bde4c39))
+
 ## [0.40.1](https://github.com/rust-bio/rust-htslib/compare/rust-htslib-v0.40.0...rust-htslib-v0.40.1) (2022-08-24)
 
 
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index abb5011fb..c18d14f8a 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "rust-htslib"
-version = "0.40.1"
+version = "0.40.2"
 authors = ["Christopher Schröder <christopher.schroeder@tu-dortmund.de>", "Johannes Köster <johannes.koester@tu-dortmund.de>"]
 description = "This library provides HTSlib bindings and a high level Rust API for reading and writing BAM files."
 readme = "README.md"
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ serde = { version = "^1", optional = true, features=["derive"] }
 serde_bytes = { version = "0.11", optional = true }
 bio-types = ">=0.9"
 thiserror = "1"
-hts-sys = { version = "0.40.1", path = "hts-sys", default-features = false }
+hts-sys = { version = "2.0.3", path = "hts-sys", default-features = false }
 derive-new = "0.5"
 ieee754 = "0.2"
 byteorder = "1.3"